A conference on youth entrepreneurship in Edmonton

An Organization of EDMONTON offers to help young entrepreneurs or future entrepreneurs, in particular under-traveled environments, to unravel markets in Canada and internationally.

In the current complex climate, marked in particular by competition, protectionism and commercial wars, they need advice, estimates the creator of the organization Help One Another Canada.

First annual event

Help One Another Canada will hold its first annual conference BeaCon From August 19 to 21 at Sandman Signature Edmonton Downtown Hotel.

Its creator, Jean-Jacques Mitakaro, is a former employee of The Business Linkwhose mission is to help the start and success of companies. As part of this job, it served as a focal point for the Immigrant or foreign investor program offered by the government of Alberta.

Jean-Jacques Mitakaro continues this work in the lucrative and in the non-lucrative.

Promote entrepreneurship

Through Help One Another Canada, he promotes education, entrepreneurship and the eradication of barriers, especially employment. And in his lucrative business, Profit and Impact Builders Canada Inc.he is interested in entrepreneurs or future local or foreign entrepreneurs who want to extend their market.

He offers them his own expertise or connects them to his network of professionals and consultants, made up since he established himself in Alberta, twenty years ago. He claims to have been confronted, as an immigrant, with integration problems, including the language barrier.

After working as a consultant to help people create companies, he wanted to go further. I will certainly give back, because I am in a position where I built relationships with people, because blacks, immigrants, we cannot succeed alone.

Young people less well served

The conference BeaConwhich will be held in the two official languages of Canada, is part of this, explains Jean-Jacques Mitakaro.

We have decided to launch an international conference extension of this organization to be able to discuss the construction of an inclusive entrepreneurship. This year, this is the first conference, it will be focused on young people from sub-command communities.

The presentations will be in face -to -face and online and the participants will come from Alberta, from the rest of Canada and abroad.

These are particularly young people of black, indigenous, rural and disabled communities, he specifies.

Experience

Among the speakers, there will be Carrie Smithvice-rector for access, community and belonging to the University of Alberta, Jeff Polovickfounder of the company The Driving Force Who rents vehicles to the Alberta government and the city of Edmonton, as well as the director of a plural Canadian Francophonie, Alphonse Ahola Ndem.

The interventions will mention international trade, will orient towards actors of financial circles and towards organizations which support minorities in business circles and entrepreneurship.

The organizers also hope to seize this opportunity to attract foreign investors in Alberta and Canada and to allow Canadian entrepreneurs to explore the outside market.

A difficult context

André Routhier, one of the volunteers who participate in the organization of the BeaConwork in the economic development sector for many years. He worked for the implementation of the North American free trade agreement which prevailed between Canada, Mexico and the United States from 1994 to 2020.

He also launched with other people an import-export and consultation company to help small and medium-sized businesses develop internationally.

André Routhier, who met Jacques Mitakaro in The Business Linksays that he has enthusiastically embarked on the project, due to the current North American and international context.

I don’t need to tell you that there is a decline in diversity, equality and inclusion among our southern neighbors […] So, we said to ourselves: ” It is a very good idea, given the context, to start a conference that would have explored this subject ” […] The other good reason was Edmonton, an entrepreneurial city that has a lot of cultural diversity.

Offer the full ecosystem

André Routhier expects participants, representing poorly served minorities, including immigrants and foreigners, acquire beacons, to do well in business circles.

One of the advantages they will have is to know the ecosystem here in Alberta and Canada and even a possibility of networking even if they are remotely. Once you have someone’s contacts, with telecommunications we have, whether in Africa or Asia, it is not complicated to join them.

The initiative, certainly ambitious, is focusing on collaboration and youth.

We want to work together to build an inclusive entrepreneurship and if you want to have a really lasting impact, you must certainly focus on young people, because they have timeconcludes Jacques Mitakaro.